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Webcast: In the Google Apps Cloud: How to Achieve Your Business Objectives
Dec 3rd, '09, 1 - 2 pm US/Eastern (GMT-5)
Join Council member Brent Hoag, Director, Global IT, at JohnsonDiversey, as he discusses the adoption of Google Apps which has helped meet four corporate goals; sustainability, simplification, increased employee productivity and global collaboration.
Webcast: Collaboration Initiatives: Benchmarks & Best Practices
Dec 15th, '09, 4 - 5 pm US/Eastern (GMT-5)
Join Council members Ruth Thorpe, VP & CIO at the U.S. Pharmaceutical Operations of Sanofi-Aventis, and Gary Kuyper, CIO at Bethany Christian Services, as they speak about their collaboration initiatives and experiences in how and why they chose the social networking and collaboration tools they are using and their business goals for collaboration, and facing culture change challenges.
Data Overview: Collaboration Initiatives Field Guide: Benchmarks & Best Practices
This appendix to the Council Field Guide provides an analysis which discusses benchmarks for collaboration IT implementation costs, adoption rates and payoffs. The overview identifies top IT and business goals and satisfaction rates for collaboration initiatives as well as best practices and lessons learned for implementing collaboration IT.
Learn more about the CIO Executive Council »December 12, 2005 — CIO —
China surpassed the United States as the world’s number one IT goods exporter in 2004. The IDG News Service reports that a study by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, China exported $180 billion worth of IT material while the U.S. exported only $149 billion worth. The reported also stated that the U.S. imports the most in IT goods. The total worldwide value was $375 billion.
As the U.S. worries about its global security and trade position in relation to China, other figures of interest can be found in the report. Figures showed that trade between China and other Asian countries is growing, while imports from the European Union and the U.S. to Asia are declining. China is also importing more components from Asian countries, such as computer chips, from other Asian countries rather than the U.S. and the EU.
By Paul Kerstein